Re: contributions from statisticians

[Jason Stover]

On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 10:24:52AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> The details are more difficult, of course--but the details you
> propose seem OK to me, especially since it sounds like you are
> volunteering to try helping out statisticians.  (Is there a word
> for this?  "mentoring"?  "shepherding"?)

Yes, I'm volunteering. I was thinking of calling it "editing" and
"reviewing," since editors and reviewers for journals do something
similar.

> Jason Stover <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I would be happy to write a file called 'CONTRIBUTING' and put that in
> > CVS. Maybe we could even put something on savannah where statistical
> > programmers will find it.
> 
> This sounds like a good way to start, to me.
> 
> If you want to make it more prominent on Savannah, then you could
> use the "News" feature to post a pointer to it.  We haven't used
> the news feature before, even to point out our 0.4.0 release, but
> perhaps we should take advantage of it.

I'll write some submission requirements soon and post them for review.

-Jason